Northeast or Midwest. Even by 1900, approximately 90 percent of all African- Americans still resided in the South. However, migration from the South has long been a significant feature of

of several notable Southern black writers emerged. Among this emergence was the work of Langston Hughes. Trussell (2003) writes that Hughes poetry rang out in the literary world:

as well. Knowing that educated blacks would be a threat, slave owners prohibited their slaves from learning to read; thus it was with great anticipation that they began to attend

published in 1936 (Gregory Bateson). After leaving New Guinea, he went to the U.S. and traveled extensively, "teaching and lecturing on subjects in all fields at many different colleges"

after the Civil war. The Compromise of 1877, however, would signify the end of that tremendous possibility for the black man as a group. That compromise, a compromise

Trobrianders. "Argonauts" is considered the founding document of economic anthropology. Emphasizing the primitive exchange system of the indigenous peoples of the

"It is against this double hegemony of a History with a capital H and a Literature consecrated by the absolute power of the written sign that the peoples who

into much of the work he produced prior to 1930, however, as he so eloquently put it, in spite of himself. It was during this early era of his writing,

often caught between the worlds in ways that African men never experience. While they may live in a new reality, the old attitudes and beliefs about a womans place

made that life chances for black children from single mother homes are reduced. C. Stigma is an important part of the puzzle. III. Conclusion There is

his athletic activity resumed after Robinson received a medical discharge in 1945 and spent a year playing baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs of what was then called the Negro

If the welfare people found out I was making as much as I am, Id lose all my benefits, and we need that money. According to Accordino (1998), research

with the differences and similarities are going to be far different than those of this particular writer and as such this writer cannot describe their experiences in any realistic fashion.

sought. Discussing the significant impact of the Middle Passage - considered to be "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" (Huggins

616,000 to African Americans nationwide (U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 2006). Although this is for the entire country, its logical to assume that Texas would show the same ratio: